Rapper 50 Cent Turns Humanitarian, Helps U.N. in Africa

ABC News’ Dan Harris and Alex Waterfield report: We’re used to seeing Bono or Angelina on humanitarian trips to Africa, but 50 Cent?

The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, recently became a large, and unlikely, donor to the United Nations’ World Food Program, and joined U.N. officials on a trip to Somalia.

“This is exciting,” he said. “I mean, according to the (security) briefing, it’s pretty dangerous, but I told him, ‘we don’t get briefings in the environment that I come from, and it can be pretty dangerous there also.”

Now he volunteers to help in one of the most lawless and dangerous places on Earth. 50 Cent also launched a new line of energy drinks, called Street King,” in which $0.10 of every bottle sold will go toward feeling children all over the world.